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fix(web): screen readers hear which background thread finished, even with the sidebar collapsed#23839

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Refs #23811. Stacked on #23752, which makes the open thread announce its own status.

Unproven: NVDA, and VoiceOver on the final markup. VoiceOver was recorded on an earlier commit of this PR that still used role="status" (below); NVDA wasn't run.

Problem

Screen readers didn't hear a background thread finish, fail or ask for something when the sidebar was collapsed. A collapsed sidebar is inert, and the only live regions for those statuses were the labels on its rows. With the sidebar open you heard "Done" without the thread's name, and the wording differed from the open thread ("Pending Approval", "Input").

Fix

  • One polite live region now sits next to the sidebar, outside the inert part. For any thread except the open one it says <status>: <thread title>: "Needs approval" or "Needs your input" when it asks for something, and "Done", "Failed" or "Stopped" when a run ends.
  • The region is a plain aria-live="polite" div with no role="status". Orca 50 maps role="status" to a status bar in Chromium and drops its updates; a plain polite region is spoken. #23752 makes the same change for the open thread.
  • A run's ending is said once, keyed on the run, the way #23752 does it for the open thread. Marking a thread unread doesn't replay it, and a second run is caught even if it finishes between two updates. A second approval or question of the same kind is announced too (a subagent's requests carry no id, so back-to-back ones from a subagent are said once).
  • A queued message cancelled while another run works isn't announced as "Stopped". The shell then only reports that cancelled run, so the working run's own ending stays quiet in this case rather than being guessed. The app's completion notifications and sounds miss this ending for the same reason; fixing it means changing which run the server's thread shell reports as latest, which is out of scope here.
  • With in-app notifications on (off by default), a background completion or request is heard twice: once from the toast, which sits in a polite live region, and once from this region. Muting this region then would drop what toasts don't cover ("Stopped", a second request in the same run, anything while the window isn't focused).
  • The words come from #23752's announcer, now shared from one place.
  • A thread is quiet the first time it's seen. Its environment counts only once its shell is live, so opening the app or reconnecting doesn't read out every thread.
  • A snoozed thread stays quiet until its timer, like its sidebar row. A question or a fresh failure ends the snooze, so those still speak.
  • The sidebar row label is no longer a live region, so each change is announced once.

Mobile isn't touched; the issue is about the desktop and web client. At phone width the sidebar is a modal sheet, which likely hides this region while the sheet is open; that wasn't tested.

Evidence

Both recordings run the same script against a dev server with Claude Haiku: start a turn in "Fix the Login Redirect", switch to "Update README documentation", collapse the sidebar and wait for the turn to end; do it again with the sidebar open; then reopen "Fix the Login Redirect". The yellow banner names the build and step.

Orca 50.2 with Chrome on Linux

Orca runs on a private X screen with its own speech-dispatcher, so the audio is only Orca. The captions are Orca's own speech log, burned in at the time it spoke.

Before (#23752 as it was, 627923883b)After (this PR)
Background turn ends, sidebar collapsednothing"Done: Fix the Login Redirect"
Background turn ends, sidebar opennothing"Done: Fix the Login Redirect"
A turn starts in the open threadnothing"Working"
Reopening the finished threadnothingnothing

Before, the page did write "Working", "Done" and a stale "Done" on reopening; Orca dropped all of it because every region was role="status".

Before:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2fcb53a9-56d0-4937-9f0c-964989bdc85a

After:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/669d667e-f3ed-4e8a-b59f-f651c050b4a5

VoiceOver with Helium on macOS (earlier commit, 94cad94)

VoiceOver's caption panel, bottom left, shows "Done: Fix the Login Redirect" at 0:21 with the sidebar collapsed and at 1:00 with it open. This commit still used role="status", which VoiceOver reads; the background logic hasn't changed since.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c736a289-e5bd-44e3-a7d5-d11d3ab822a3

The "changed files" cards in the recordings are me switching builds under the running dev server, not the agent.

After an Opus review, the final code was also run in a web dev build on corex with real Codex turns, logging every live-region write: a turn finishing in a background thread wrote "Done: Wait 20 Seconds", and the open-thread cases from #23752 behaved as listed there.

Tests

backgroundThreadAnnouncement.test.ts covers the wording, saying each run's ending once (no replay, a second run caught, rollbacks quiet), a repeat request of the same kind, a queued message cancelled mid-turn, staying quiet on first sight and after a resync, leaving the open thread out, snoozed threads, joining changes that land together, and subagent requests raised on the parent row. vp run check:changed passes.

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This PR adds a globally mounted screen-reader announcement workflow for background threads and changes existing sidebar announcement behavior, with substantial new production logic. Unresolved comments also identify possible stale live-region announcements, so the accessibility behavior merits human review.

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I tested this live with NVDA with T3 Code in front. The main fix works: background threads are announced by name, including with the sidebar collapsed. There are some issues that need to be addressed, listed below. Tested with Claude (Opus 5.5), using a tool I developed to let the agent monitor and drive NVDA.

The NVDA column is that tool's output, numbered by utterance. Focus and navigation speech (for example "Message edit has auto complete multi line opens list") is trimmed, so gaps in the numbers are expected.

#CaseNVDA outputResult
1App restart1241–1253: window, document and a Codex update notice; no thread statusPass
2Background thread finishes, sidebar open1256 said: "Working"
1261 said: "Done: Greeting"		Pass
3Background thread finishes, sidebar collapsed1278 said: "Working"
1280 said: "Done: Greeting"		Pass
4Open thread finishes1264 said: "Working"
1265 said: "Done"		Pass
5Background thread needs approval1305 said: "Working"
1307 said: "Needs approval: Greeting"		Pass
6Background thread needs input1296 said: "Working"
1298 said: "Needs your input: Greeting"		Pass
7Second approval in the same thread1309 said: "Approve button"
1311 said: "Needs approval: Greeting"		Pass
8Approve the last request, then leave1313 said: "Approve button"
1315 said: "Done: Greeting"		Pass
9Thread snoozed while working, then finishes1398 said: "Working"
1411 said: "out of edit Done: Greeting" (dialog closing, see 17)
nothing after 1411 when the thread finished		Pass
10Snooze runs out after the thread finishednothing from T3 CodeGap
11Background thread stopped1525 said: "Working"
1527 said: "Stopped: Greeting"		Pass
12Two threads finish 0.6 s apart1529 said: "Working"
1531 said: "Working"
1533 said: "Done: Greeting"
1534 said: "Done: Heading navigation in long threads"		Pass
13Queued message kept, both runs finish1537 said: "Working"
1539 said: "1 queued message"
1542 said: "Done: Greeting"		Pass
14Approval asked for by a Claude subagent (Task tool)1553 said: "Working"
1555 said: "Needs approval: Greeting"		Pass unless the intent is to anounse that a subagent in the thread needs approval
15Switching back to a thread that finished in the background1263 said: "Done"
1552 said: "Stopped"		Needs a decision. I think this behaviour should be kept, since it's quite nice to hear the status when switching between threads after being away for a while, but more opinions are welcome.
16Queued message removed while the first run works1545 said: "Working"
1546 said: "list"
1547 said: "button unavailable"
nothing when the first run finished		Gap
17Closing a dialog after a background announcement1410 said: "T 3 Code (Dev) document"
1411 said: "out of edit Done: Greeting" while the thread was still working		Bug
18Failednot testedNo reliable trigger

10. settledRunId updates while the thread is snoozed, so the outcome is lost rather than delayed. The sidebar shows "Woke"; announcing "Woke: Greeting" would match it.

15. ThreadActivityAnnouncer takes the cached snapshot (working) as its baseline, then the fresh one (idle, completed) reads as the run ending, so the end that BackgroundThreadAnnouncer already spoke is spoken again. Both could share which runs were already announced.

16. The removed queued run becomes latestRun (cancelled), so when the first run finishes there's nothing new to announce. The sidebar shows no "Done" either. Treating activeRunId going to null as the run ending might cover it.

17. The background region keeps its last text, and NVDA reads it again when a modal closes. Clearing it a few seconds after each write would probably avoid it.

apps/web/src/components/BackgroundThreadAnnouncer.tsxline 62Outdated · e0de7efOpen thread
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59+ );
60+ memoryRef.current = memory;
61+ const region = regionRef.current;
62+ if (region === null || announcement === null || toastsSpeak) return;
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When in-app notifications are enabled, this return permanently drops Stopped: <title> announcements for background runs that become interrupted or cancelled, even though EnvironmentNotifications emits no replacement toast for them. The memory has already advanced at line 60, so those announcements cannot be retried; consecutive approval requests in the same run are also deduplicated by the toast coordinator. Suppress an announcement only when a toast for that specific event was actually emitted.

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Sshivam23h ago

Right: toasts skip "Stopped", a second request in the same run, and anything while the window is unfocused, so muting the region dropped those for good. Reverted in ac463d5fbe. With in-app notifications on, a completion is now heard twice (toast plus region) rather than risk losing one; the PR description notes it.

Added 7 commits

  • fix(web): screen readers hear which background thread finished, even with the sidebar collapsedfb44b49
  • fix(web): background announcements follow each run's ending and stay quiet while snoozedef5a82a
  • fix(web): a subagent's request no longer borrows the parent's request id05529b4
  • fix(web): announce a repeat request and ignore a queued run cancelled mid-turnb168216
  • fix(web): Orca hears background thread announcements0a6517d
  • fix(web): background announcements don't repeat in-app notification toasts2cf37ee
  • revert: background announcements speak even with in-app notifications on489ac64
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📝 Walkthrough

The change adds background-thread announcements for pending requests and run outcomes. It tracks announcement state, filters eligible threads by environment and thread state, and renders announcements in a polite live region. The sidebar row’s status label is no longer a live region.

Changes: Thread announcements

Layer / File(s)Summary
Announcement selection and status text
apps/web/src/components/backgroundThreadAnnouncement.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/threadActivityAnnouncement.ts, apps/web/src/components/backgroundThreadAnnouncement.test.ts		The new logic resolves pending requests, tracks request and run state, and generates announcements. Shared status text constants cover approvals, input requests, and run outcomes. Tests cover request resolution, run outcomes, and cases that do not produce announcements.
Sidebar announcement integration
apps/web/src/state/shell.ts, apps/web/src/components/BackgroundThreadAnnouncer.tsx, apps/web/src/components/AppSidebarLayout.tsx, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadRow.tsx		The sidebar derives live environment IDs and renders BackgroundThreadAnnouncer. The announcer filters thread snapshots and updates a polite live region. The row status label is rendered as plain text.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1sequenceDiagram
2 participant AppSidebarLayout
3 participant BackgroundThreadAnnouncer
4 participant nextBackgroundThreadAnnouncement
5 participant PoliteLiveRegion
6 AppSidebarLayout->>BackgroundThreadAnnouncer: render inside SidebarProvider
7 BackgroundThreadAnnouncer->>nextBackgroundThreadAnnouncement: pass thread snapshots, open thread key, and memory
8 nextBackgroundThreadAnnouncement-->>BackgroundThreadAnnouncer: return updated memory and announcement
9 BackgroundThreadAnnouncer->>PoliteLiveRegion: update text when an announcement exists

Possibly related issues

  • pingdotgg/t3code#23811: The change adds background-thread status announcements and includes the thread title.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#23656: The change announces completion, failure, stop, approval, and input states, but does not add progress announcements.

Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#24080: The PR changes snooze fields used when determining whether a background thread should be announced.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 489ac

Screen readers can repeat stale completion text and miss several current thread-status changes, so the accessibility behavior should be corrected before merge.

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apps/web/src/components/chat/ThreadActivityAnnouncer.tsxline 51Outdated · ac463d5Open thread
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48+ } else if (announcement !== null) {
49+ // Screen readers ignore a write that leaves the text unchanged, so a
50+ // repeated "Done" gets a trailing non-breaking space to count as new.
51+ region.textContent = region.textContent === announcement ? `${announcement} ` : announcement;
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Clear the retained text after a delay.

This region keeps its last announcement indefinitely. NVDA can read it again when a dialog closes. See the comment on BackgroundThreadAnnouncer.tsx Line 62 for the cause and the proposed timer-based fix. Apply the same fix here. Cancel the pending clear on a newer announcement, on a threadKey change, and on unmount.

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apps/web/src/components/BackgroundThreadAnnouncer.tsxline 62Outdated · ac463d5Open thread
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59+ if (region === null || announcement === null) return;
60+ // Screen readers ignore a write that leaves the text unchanged, so a repeat
61+ // gets a trailing non-breaking space to count as new.
62+ region.textContent = region.textContent === announcement ? `${announcement} ` : announcement;
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear the live-region text after a delay so a screen reader does not re-read stale announcements.

The region keeps its last announcement indefinitely. The PR comments report that NVDA reads the retained text again when a dialog closes. This happens while the thread is still working. The user then hears an outdated "Done" or "Needs approval" as if it were new.

Schedule a clear after the announcement has had time to be spoken. Cancel the pending clear when a newer announcement arrives. Cancel it on unmount. The trailing-space write at Line 62 still handles back-to-back identical text.

ThreadActivityAnnouncer.tsx Line 51 has the same retention behavior. Apply the same fix there.

Proposed fix
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1 const regionRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
2 const memoryRef = useRef<BackgroundThreadMemory>(new Map());
3+ const clearTimerRef = useRef<ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | undefined>(undefined);
4+ useEffect(() => () => clearTimeout(clearTimerRef.current), []);
diff
1 region.textContent = region.textContent === announcement ? `${announcement} ` : announcement;
2+ clearTimeout(clearTimerRef.current);
3+ clearTimerRef.current = setTimeout(() => {
4+ region.textContent = "";
5+ }, 10_000);

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Based on learnings: "recommend verifying behavior with real screen readers (e.g., NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver) rather than relying solely on automated a11y linting." and the retained-text re-announcement guidance about clearing and restoring in a later task.

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NVDA results on the final markup (ac463d5fbe)

I tested the final markup with NVDA in the desktop app using claude, which used a second web client to drive the other threads and a tool developed for driving and capturing NVDA speech output. For each case I checked what NVDA actually said and the text that landed in the announcer's live region. Every case I could trigger from the UI behaved as described. Should I make this an issue and link it to this pr? A queued message cancelled while another run works isn't announced as "Stopped". Also if anything in my approach is missing or it isn't what you are looking for feel free to inform me so I can keep it in mind in the future.

The NVDA column is the tool's output, numbered by utterance. Focus and navigation speech (for example "Message edit has auto complete multi line opens list") is trimmed, so gaps in the numbers are expected. For silent cases, the tool prints the last utterance number before the step. If you rather have recordings I can do that instead.

CaseExpectedNVDA outputResult
Background Done, sidebar collapsed"Done: …" once47 said: "Done: Wait 25 Seconds"Pass
Background Done, sidebar openOnce49 said: "Done: Wait 25 Seconds"Pass
Stopped"Stopped: …"50 said: "Stopped: Wait 25 Seconds"Pass
Question asked"Needs your input: …"51 said: "Needs your input: Wait 25 Seconds"Pass
Second question in the same threadSpoken again52 said: "Needs your input: Wait 25 Seconds"
53 said: "Done: Wait 25 Seconds" after answering it		Pass
Approval request"Needs approval: …"56 said: "Needs approval: Wait 25 Seconds"Pass
Second approval in the same threadSpoken again58 said: "Needs approval: Wait 25 Seconds"
59 said: "Done: Wait 25 Seconds" after approving it		Pass
Claude subagent approvals, on the parent threadSpoken on the parentRun one after the other:
60 said: "Needs approval: Wait 25 Seconds"
61 said: "Needs approval: Wait 25 Seconds"
62 said: "Done: Wait 25 Seconds"
Two Bash calls made in parallel (separate recording, numbering restarted):
25 said: "Needs approval: Wait 25 Seconds"
26 said: "Needs approval: Wait 25 Seconds" after approving the first
28 said: "Done: Wait 25 Seconds"		Pass, see note below
Queued run cancelled while another worksNo "Stopped"(nothing said after 63)Pass (the working run's ending is also quiet, as documented)
Snoozed thread finishesSilent(nothing said after 64); row shows "Done"Pass
Snooze ends on its ownNo replay(nothing said after 73); row shows "Woke"Pass
Snoozed thread asks a questionSpoken75 said: "Needs your input: Wait 25 Seconds"Pass
After answering, the thread re-snoozesIts Done is quiet(nothing said after 75)Pass (by design)
The open threadNot announced by this region66 said: "Working"
71 said: "Done" (the open thread's own announcer, not "Done: …")		Pass
Reload with a question pendingNothing old read103–113: window, document and a Codex update notice; no thread statusPass
Server restart, page stays openNothing old read(nothing said after 113)Pass
Mark unread / reopenSilent(nothing said after 73) after mark unread
72–73: composer focus only, after reopening		Pass
Same text twice in a rowSpoken both times117 said: "Done: Wait 25 Seconds"
119 said: "Done: Wait 25 Seconds"		Pass
UnarchiveSilent(nothing said after 126)Pass
In-app notifications onHeard twice (toast, then region)129 said: "Dismiss notification Thread completed Wait 25 Seconds Open thread"
130 said: "Done: Wait 25 Seconds"		Pass, as documented

Claude subagent approvals. The documented limitation (back-to-back subagent requests said once, since they carry no id) didn't come up with Claude. I asked a subagent to make two Bash calls in parallel. Both approvals were stored on the parent thread, each with its own request id, and the second was only raised after the first was approved (resolved 12:33:02.843, next created 12:33:03.425). So each one was a new request on the parent, and both were spoken. The id-less path, where a request lives on a child thread and surfaces on the parent row, wasn't exercised here.

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apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadRow.tsxlines 1345–1348Open thread
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1345+ {/* Not a live region: a collapsed sidebar is inert, so
1346+ BackgroundThreadAnnouncer and the open thread's
1347+ timeline speak status changes instead. */}
1348+ {topStatus.label}
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2printf '%s\n' '--- current SidebarThreadRow render ---'
3nl -ba apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadRow.tsx | sed -n '1300,1365p'
4printf '%s\n' '--- current status helpers and nearby branches ---'
5nl -ba apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadRow.tsx | sed -n '620,715p'
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7git show eb1510d2493cbf28600432d5193cc22a1af8f3d8:apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadRow.tsx | nl -ba | sed -n '1300,1365p'
8printf '%s\n' '--- exact PR diff for this file ---'
9git diff eb1510d2493cbf28600432d5193cc22a1af8f3d8 489ac649bd7145eef02c2ccdc51f2577570195ec -- apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadRow.tsx

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Keep a live region for uncovered non-route statuses.

When a non-route thread changes to working, waiting, or limited, the plain label gives screen readers no status update. Add a live region only for those statuses. The separate Woke branch already retains its own region, and approval, input, and terminal statuses remain covered by the dedicated announcers.

Suggested fix
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1- {topStatus.label}
2+ <span
3+ role={
4+ !props.isRouteThread &&
5+ (status === "working" || status === "waiting" || status === "limited")
6+ ? "status"
7+ : undefined
8+ }
9+ >
10+ {topStatus.label}
11+ </span>
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1 {/* Not a live region: a collapsed sidebar is inert, so
2 BackgroundThreadAnnouncer and the open thread's
3 timeline speak status changes instead. */}
4 <span
5 role={
6 !props.isRouteThread &&
7 (status === "working" || status === "waiting" || status === "limited")
8 ? "status"
9 : undefined
10 }
11 >
12 {topStatus.label}
13 </span>
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5
6Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadRow.tsx around
7lines 1345 - 1348:
8Update the `topStatus.label` rendering to expose a status live region only when
9`props.isRouteThread` is false and `status` is `working`, `waiting`, or
10`limited`; leave the label non-live for other statuses. Preserve the separate
11`Woke` region and existing coverage for approval, input, and terminal statuses.
12
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